i6S HISTORY OF THE [book vx. 
Lastly, a colony governor, besides various emo¬ 
luments arising from fees, fines, forfeitures, and 
escheats, has an honourable annual provision settled 
upon him, by act of assembly, for the whole term 
of his administration in the colony. For, in order 
that he may not be tempted to prostitute the dig¬ 
nity of his station by improper condescensions to 
leading men in the assembly, he is restrained by 
his instructions from accepting any salary, unless 
the same be settled upon him by law, within the 
space of one year after his entrance into the go¬ 
vernment, and expressly made irrevocable during 
the whole term of his residence in the administra¬ 
tion. And this, in my opinion, is a wise and most 
necessary restriction. 
Armed with such various authorities, and pos¬ 
sessing such transcendant pre-eminence and privi¬ 
leges as I have described, it is not to be expected, 
from the common fallibility of human nature, that 
every colony governor (placed at so great a distance 
from the mother country) should on every occasion, 
hear his faculties meekly. Great caution is there¬ 
fore undoubtedly necessary, on the part of a Bri¬ 
tish minister, in the choice of persons for a trust of 
so great weight and dignity; the powers with 
which our plantation governors are invested being 
more extensive than those which the laws of Eng- 
tion of a jury. The judge is nominated by the crown. The colo¬ 
nists complain with great reason of this law, as a direct violation 
and infringement of their best and dearest constitutional rights. 
